Uthman, Ibrahim Olatunde.

Feminist Insiders-Outsiders Muslim Women in Nigeria and the Contemporary Feminist Movement. [electronic resource] : - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009. - 1 online resource (262 p.)

Table of contents; preface; acknowledgements; chapter one; chapter two; chapter three; chapter four; chapter five; chapter six; bibliography; appendix a; appendix b.

This book examines different brand of women's feminist struggles and focuses on the struggles of Muslim women who are insiders in the Islamic Movement, as represented in Nigerian Muslim women's Islamic activism. Drawing on different secular-Islamic Gender feminist theoretical frameworks, the book closely analyses Islamic texts and these Muslim women brand of feminism, which reflect the effects of their strong Islamic commitment culture on their gender relations, postulations and feminist stru ...

9781443815673 (electronic bk.) 1443815675 (electronic bk.)


Muslim women--Social conditions.--Nigeria
Muslim women--Political activity--Nigeria.
Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies


Electronic books.

HQ1815.5 .U84 2009

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